The Ultimate Bloggin and Pinging Guide

Blog is short for weblog. A weblog is a journal that is frequnetly updated and intened for general public consumption. Blogs generally represent the personality of the author or the web site.

Originally, a ping was a program that bounced a request off of another computer/server over a network or the internet to see if the remote computer was responding. That same program is now used as a method of informing others that your blog exists and also let's them know when a new post has been made.